Mengamuk closure 2016

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Mengamuk has ceased operations as of late 2016. We would like thank you warmly for supporting and following us over the years. In case you would like to contact us in the future, you will find our personal contacts below.

We are pleased to announce that My Love Awaits Me by the Sea, a film by Mais Darwazah, has been awarded prizes at multiple film festivals and has now been released in Palestine.

The film won AFAC best feature film at Latin Arab Film Festival 2014, the Grand Prize at Festival Internacional de Cinema Feminino 2014, Best Documentary at Medfilm Festival 2014, Golden Linx Best Documentary at New Directors New Films 2014 and the Jury Prize at Ismailia International Documentary Festival 2014.

The world premiere of Orbitalna (aka Orbital), a film by Marcin Malaszczak, at the 64th Berlinale (Forum Expanded) is scheduled for 10 February 2014 at 3pm.
Further public screenings will take place at the Berlinische Galerie.

Sieniawka has been awarded the ARTE Documentary Film Prize at the 2013 Duisburger Filmwoche.

Even though it focuses on people on the margins of society, it's not a 'problem film' [...]. This exceptional film shifts the parameters of perception, [...] opening [a] space in which everything seems possible [...] and the boundaries between documentary and fiction, between past and present, are not only redrawn, but become meaningless. - jury statement

The world premiere of My Love Awaits Me by the Sea, a film by Mais Darwazah, at the Toronto International Film Festival is scheduled for 7 September 2013 at 6:45pm.
Further public screenings are scheduled for 9 and 14 September.

Sieniawka has been awarded Best First Film at FID Marseille. The film was selected by the Jury of the French Competition from amongst the feature debuts in the International Competition, the French Competition and Parallel Screens

From the Jury: For its boldness in the use of a fictional device that allows us to approach the main subject of the film from a different angle, while at the same time opening a perspective that challenges our gaze time and again.

An experimental blend of observational documentary, social commentary and science-fiction fable, Sieniawka was one of the most original debut features premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.The Hollywood Reporter

Sieniawka (dir. Marcin Malaszczak) was the most boring and brilliant thing I saw at the festival, a piece of dissonant genius reminiscent of Antonioni, Beckett, Tarkovsky and late Godard.When we build again

The world premiere of Sieniawka, a film by Marcin Malaszczak, at the 63rd Berlinale (section: Forum) is scheduled for 10 February 2013 at 7pm.
Further public screenings are scheduled for 13, 15 and 17 February.